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weekly Linux and open source news show
I'm your host Nick and this is a podcast
where we discuss everything that happened
in the Linux open source privacy and
Open web spaces so for this week
We have some unknown trouble at the GNOME
foundation that might very well put in
danger all the projects
Or at least some of the projects that
they've been working on with the funding
of the sovereign tech fund
We've got the EU looking into GDPR
Violations or potential
violations made by AI tools
We've got f-droid micro G
and the slash e Android ROM
Bending together for a new initiative to
try and make well mobile and the mobile
space a little bit more ethical
We've got some news about Fedora. We've
got some news about the Internet archive
being targeted by DDoS attacks
We've got some distro releases
We've got some gaming news and as always
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So first let's talk about GNOME. You
probably know they received a like 1
million euro grand from an organization
That is based in Germany. That's called
the sovereign tech fund
They have to use these funds specifically
to work on specific projects
They agreed upon when receiving the grant
and they've been doing a lot of that.
There's the global
keyboard shortcuts portal
There's home encryption. There's a new
accessibility framework.
There's better wayland support
There's a lot of stuff being included in
here, but apparently
they've hit a snag with this
That's what they call a major issue on
the GNOME Foundation side
But they did not give
any more details yet
They said they wanted to resolve that
problem before it impacts coordination of
those sovereign tech fund projects
But they also said that if they could not
solve that major issue
It might affect some parts of the project
and make work on them basically hard
I wish they had been
clearer about what is happening
It would have been nice to
know what the problem is exactly
Did they use some of those funds to work
on something else?
Did the GNOME Foundation
misattribute certain elements of that
fund or maybe did they not sign the
correct paperwork or
forgot to do something?
I'm not sure maybe the foundation was not
eligible for this grant because it's from
a German thing and the GNOME Foundation
Is not German
I don't know but I wish they had
explained because it would make it way
easier to potentially offer
some help or just to know if
The risk is high or not for the various
projects that are being worked on which
are really really nice
It would be a shame if those projects
could not come to fruition or
just were not funded anymore
Because they are things that
will advance GNOME immensely
now they are still making some progress
while they're trying to
resolve that thing and
Notably one thing that I missed is that
they've worked on
adding GTK CSS variables
Meaning that certain colors in GTK apps
and in the Advaita theme could be changed
through variables by developers
Which is interesting if a developer wants
to have a specific
accent color in their app
Which is not the accent color the user
defined or if they want to have specific
Contrast and color tones in their
application, but it's also useful for
potentially supporting this pesky little
accent color standard
that has been
implemented by KDE by I think
Cinnamon I think Matei has it as well
I think elementary OS has it as well
basically the only major holdout is GNOME
They don't support this accent color
standard and so maybe this
work could be helpful for that
I don't know if that's what they're going
to end up using it for because they just
never call it anything
Along those terms they never mention
accent colors in there
But using variables to define certain
colors in your theme is generally used to
let people change the colors
And if app developers can do it. There's
no reason why we couldn't also do it
through GNOME settings
They're also working on a
new installer for GNOME OS
Something that I feel might be the
inkling that this GNOME
OS could at some point
become more than just a test distro for
developers and
something users might actually
Want to run because why would you focus
on developing a brand new installer?
If the distro you're offering is just
meant for developers and for testing
It would feel a bit weird to have all
that extra work being invested in just
the test platform where you could just
Use column RS or anything
else that has all the features
Any developer will be able to accommodate
that and they really won't need something
super custom if you really need
Certain custom options in your installer
you can add them to existing ones
So developing a brand new installer feels
like maybe maybe it's a move
Towards making GNOME OS a more normal
distribution that
people could actually use
Again, I do not know it's just pure
speculation here now
I hope the major issue that they
identified with the GNOME
foundation can be resolved
Everything that has been started thanks
to the sovereign tech fund grant is super
important to push GNOME forward
And it would really be disheartening if
anything could jeopardize
the delivery of this project
So hopefully they can resolve that issue
and tell us a bit more about it. So we
know like what's happening
Okay, and so I'm recording this exact
segment the day after
Recording the podcast and we had some
more information about the potential
issues that GNOME is facing
They didn't tell us
exactly what is happening
But they did post an update right as I
was recording the news video this morning
to confirm that things are now solved
They did not explain what the issue was
but work will apparently be able to
continue and GNOME will even
Expand its various initiatives to do more
work along the lines of what they're
doing with the sovereign tech fund
They actually hired a brand new program
manager to handle all of these projects
and handle communication
Which kind of makes me think that maybe
the major issue was that
everyone started working on their
Projects for the STF, but no one really
communicated any
progress to the STF directly
Maybe no one answered their questions or
like checked in to tell them how the
money was being used and
maybe the STF got worried
That hey, you know what?
Maybe you're swindling us of our money
because we don't know
what you're doing right now
This is just speculation on my part
I have no idea if that's the case, but
since they hired someone to handle this
maybe that's the problem
GNOME also seems to want to expand the
work being done with a process to let the
community give
suggestions for work that is needed
And another process for companies or
organizations to offer
grants to fund that work
so basically some kind of bug
bounty but with features and
Probably some kind of triage to make sure
that the requested features are actually
stuff that GNOME wants
to offer in their whole
Ecosystem I I don't see someone asking
for the like the minimize button back or
the system tray back
Being allowed to have funding for this
exact same thing the GNOME Foundation
applied to the open tech fund as well
That's an American nonprofit focused on
supporting projects that go for a more
open approach towards tech
So maybe this could give them a little
bit more funding as well
And the foundation will also apply for
more contract funding with the sovereign
tech fund in mid-june
And finally, they also are launching a
development fund to raise more funds from
the community themselves
To fund all of these ideas, which is nice
and on top of that it looks like they
cleaned up the books
They are now operating under their budget
and they probably
shouldn't have a deficit this year
So it looks like everything is going
pretty well in the end
Problems are being handled and GNOME
seems to have everything lined up to move
forward to get bigger
and to work on more things
We will have to wait and see if this
amounts to anything in a year or two
But it's very encouraging and it should
make all the people kind of mocking or
doubting GNOME for hiring
This new director called Holly Millian
Maybe they're gonna eat their hats now
because who could have guessed that
someone with experience
Finding funding and running nonprofits
would be a good choice to run a nonprofit
instead of looking at her
External activities of shamanism. Maybe
they should have looked at her resume
Which apparently seems to give her some
good notions of how to
make the GNOME foundation run
We'll see if it works in the long run,
but for now, I don't see anything that I
find distasteful at all
Now the EU is well known for trying to
regulate everything and anything
including big tech companies
Sometimes it's a hit sometimes it's a
miss right now. They're
investigating some potential
GDPR breaches in chat
GPT especially in the data
it's scraped off of the internet because
if you don't know the GDPR says that
before collecting any
data about anyone you have to
gather consent from that person and you
need to be able to prove that you
gathered that consent and
By scraping a lot and a lot of data from
various public websites
Chatter GPT definitely has grabbed some
personal data about certain people
whether they're prominent public
Individuals or just some public Facebook
profiles and they actually never got
consent from those people
Together all of this data the data
protection board in the EU
Analyzed the practices from open AI and
they found some problematic things in how
they scraped content
But also in the accuracy of
the data that chat GPT display
They received a lot of complaints about
chat GPTs hallucinations
And this is another problem with the GDPR
because the GDPR also
states that if you restitute any
information to the public about a certain
person or organization or anything else
this information needs to be factual and
correct and
Well, we all know that open AI and
general chat bots attend to
hallucinate a lot of stuff
That never actually happened or
completely misinterpret
certain articles and phrases
attributing quotes citations desires and
phrases or acts to people or companies
that they indeed never
Actually did they're just flat-out
inventing some stories now this
investigation is just starting but it's
an interesting angle
It's not looking at hey, are they
infringing on copyright
by scraping this data?
It's not oh, is it a misinformation if
they publish this? It's not oh should
they respect licenses on
the things that they use?
It's well, they're gathering a lot of
personal data by accident or not
And yeah, it needs to be regulated as
well, which I think
is an interesting angle
We never really saw about AI so this
investigation already surfaced a few
things first. It's that consent thing
Obviously sometimes
Companies in the EU will not be able to
prove that they gathered consent for a
reason or not or another
But there is another use case that lets
companies gather that
data without consent
And that's when they can rely on a
legitimate interest for the
company to gather that data
And that's what is being contested here a
privacy expert saying seems to think that
basically here open AI has no
legitimate interest to gather this data
because well gathering data on public
profiles on Facebook is not
what is going to make your
Chatbot better and the GDPR stipulates
that companies who use that legitimate
interest to justify the
fact they're gathering
Personal information without consent.
They should make all that information
they gathered publicly available
So everyone can check that they indeed
gathered information that is legitimate
and related to what they're trying to do
Open AI does not publish any of their
data set or anything
they trained on meaning
It's all a black box and you can only
infer what they've used in terms of data
by the results and the
information it just spits back
Which leads you to sort of guess where it
could have gotten that information
And that second issue is
obviously those hallucinations
We talked about the GDPR stipulates that
all information you can get about EU
citizens should be accurate
So when you ask a question to chat GPT
about a specific individual
It shouldn't tell you things that it
imagined and as I said
We all know that it tends to imagine a
lot of things that never actually happen
So these are preliminary conclusions and
it ends in no fine or recommendations
It's just broad advice. It's just saying
hey just by the start
of this investigation
We have noticed that open AI should
implement appropriate
measures and safeguards
This could mean anything and
everything at the same time
It leaves open AI completely free to
interpret that however
they want and to fix anything
But maybe later down the line they will
find more concrete stuff
that open AI needs to do
I hope they can do that
So these tools can start operating in a
more ethical and
respectful manner in the future
We are being force fed these tools. Some
people are very happy to have them
Some people don't want them but basically
they are happening
whether we like them or not
We are going to see those tools
everywhere at some point
So it would be nice if they were at least
private and ethical from the get-go
Instead of having to wait for them to
become gigantic before acting just like
what we did with the giant tech companies
We have today
We only started regulating them when they
were way too big to really regulate if we
can avoid doing that same
mistake with AI companies
It would be great
Now this week we also saw an interesting
group or initiative
forming for mobile devices
It's called Moby free and
it includes the e foundation
They are the ones making the slash e
Android ROM that I
covered a bit on the channel
It's a de-googled ROM with their own
custom launchers forks of AOSP apps or
entirely open source applications
And they are not just shipping a package
of already available apps
They're actually improving
the design so it looks coherent
They're offering a space in the next
cloud instance for free so you can store
your stuff and create a free account that
you have control over
Not another company stuff like that. So
they're trying to push the privacy and
ethical side of Android basically
I talked about them on the channel go
check out those videos if you want
But this initiative also regroups micro G
Which is the open source implementation
of the Google services which lets you use
certain Google apps and applications
That depend on Google services on
de-googled Android ROMs. You never make a
real call to Google with those things
It also includes fDroid which is the open
source app store for open source apps
And there are a bunch of other projects
here. It's sponsored by
the European Commission
So the EU and the end goal is to have a
more open more
private and more sustainable
Ecosystem in the mobile software sector
without all the current privacy
violations without
user lock-in that prevents
You from moving from
either Android to something else
But even sometimes from a Android
manufacturer to another one and without
forcing hardware changes
through software obsolescence
Now they also
advocate for open source code
Obviously because all of these projects
are open source and their plan of action
is to first start gathering
Information about what people would like
to see change in the mobile sector by
conducting some workshops
and some user focus groups
And then to use that feedback to improve
the slash e Android ROM improve the
various app stores
improve messaging tools
Maps and more to actually have well
something that can compete and can
support all the applications people need
It is a very interesting project to me
It probably will not amount to a lot of
people moving away from big tech
platforms and services
Unless at some point it gets a strong
push by the EU with a
specific carrier or whatever
Not seeing that happening. That's not
what the EU does generally
But if they do manage to get a bit of EU
funding if they can manage to
make sure that slash e works
Reliably with most apps without
compatibility problems due to Google
safety net or due to micro G not
supporting everything
That will be a net benefit for most
people even for people not
using slash e as their ROM
This initiative will
basically lift all Android ROM
If it actually managed to build something
because it's open source code and any
other Android ROM will be
able to benefit from those
improvements so hopefully this works and
I can finally go back to using a D Google
Android ROM on solid
hardware because for now
I'm stuck
Now the Fedora mirrors are apparently
being heavily strained by millions of
requests coming from
AWS
Fedora hosts the
mirrors for the ep el systems
They're called basically the extra
packages for enterprise Linux
They're sort of PPA's for red hat
enterprise Linux for red hat based
distros for sent OS and stuff like that
They contain software that lets you turn
your system to a specific use case
That is not necessarily the prime focus
of red hat enterprise Linux or sent OS
And they're very interesting things that
that a lot of people use
these mirrors that host the EP el
Repos have seen a surge
in traffic since March
2024 more than five million new systems
pulling packages from
those repos are just
pulling the repos for available packages
and it basically doubled the amount of
connections to those
repos in a few months and
The source is clearly identified as
Amazon with traffic
from AWS surging like crazy
Now fortunately the problem has been
reported to Amazon and some of their
engineers are looking at the issue
To try and see what
happened and to fix it
This is apparently not linked to people
migrating from sent OS 7 or
red hat enterprise Linux 7
Which maybe who would maybe like focus on
a similar distribution that would use the
EP el system to upgrade itself
That's not the case that surge would have
lasted way less time than what we're
seeing on the Fedora mirrors
So what would actually be nice is if tech
companies using those community projects
the all those community mirrors hosted by
community projects if they actually
Hosted those mirrors themselves or made a
copy of them or just offered to host them
on their infrastructure
When a giant company like Amazon is a big
leader in the hosting space
It would make sense if instead of just
piggybacking off of community servers
They could actually pay for some servers
for their own use because apparently
Amazon Linux uses those things. So yeah
I know Amazon contributes to the Linux
kernel things like that
But honestly hosting some mirrors for
those projects would
probably cost them nothing
And if they could just use their own
mirrors instead of the
community ones for their own distros
That would probably be best for everyone
And still on Fedora. It looks like the
new installer is being delayed again
They've been working on a replacement to
the let's be honest pretty terrible
Anaconda installer that Fedora currently
uses they've been
working on that for a while now
It was initially planned for Fedora 39.
It wasn't ready was pushed
to 40 then was pushed to 41
But it also won't be ready for October
when Fedora 41 is planned meaning that it
has to be pushed yet again to Fedora 42
Now that new installer
is called Anaconda Web UI
It does look a lot better and more
user-friendly than the current Anaconda
It's way easier to understand with a more
normal design instead of putting like
confirm and continue buttons in the top
Left corner where no
other program ever placed them
Especially if you have a big screen where
you might not even see
that there's anything up there
Yeah, it's just going to be a big big
improvement and it's kind of needed
because Fedora currently like if you
install it three times
You know it works, but the first time you
are going to be very confused
Apparently installing Linux is not a big
issue these days if at least if I can
trust in my latest
community survey that I did
I think only 4% of people said that
installing Linux was a
major problem for them
So people seem to have solved that but
having a good installer is still pretty
nice and their new
installer will support Wayland now
It's it's a web application
So easy to maintain and easy to replace
or even to use on other distributions
It will support a better
remote desktop for installations
But yeah
The developers just do not feel like they
have the time to get that installer to a
state where it would offer
All the features that people are
expecting from the installer so it will
not land before 2025 for
Fedora 42 probably in April
It's not a big big problem and I call
that the current version
works. It's just very unintuitive
What feels really weird to me and the
development time isn't really weird
either because Ubuntu did the exact same
thing when they revamped
Their installer they announced it
They said hey look at what we've done and
then they took three years to release it
because yes making a stable
installer is not that easy
Which is why I don't understand why every
single distro feels like they have to
redevelop their own installer
Open SUSE is doing it right
now Fedora is doing it right now
Ubuntu did it like I think a year and a
half ago or a year ago. They started
using their own installer
We have Kalamares that works pretty well.
We have a lot of others
GNOME is working on their own installer
just for GNOME OS. Why do
we need so many installers?
Their goal is to grab either a system
image and unzip it or to grab a bunch of
packages and install them
We don't need
20,000 installers to do this thing and
the UI is exactly the
same for all of them
They are the same steps you choose an
internet connection you choose a user you
choose a keyboard layout
You choose a language and you choose a
partition scheme, and then you install
it's really not that difficult
I'm pretty sure people could unify all of
this because as much as I think
Fragmentation is a good thing for a lot
of projects for installers.
I really do not see the point
It's something you will
do once on your computer
And you will only do it again when you
change systems which technically should
not happen all that often
So why do we need that many installers? I
will never understand that
Now the Internet Archive is apparently
being heavily targeted by DDoS attacks
And they have been trying to fend these
off for a few days now
They haven't been able to identify the
source of that attack and the entire
database of the Internet
Archive is apparently safe
But the website is made
Unaccessible intermittently and it also
knocks off the Wayback Machine website
Which you probably know about it lets you
find old versions of specific websites
stuff that vanished off of the internet
And it's a really really useful
information conservation tool and it is
apparently a trend
these days for plenty of
public knowledge
Repositories to be attacked by these
types of attacks including the British
Library or the Berlin
Natural History Museum
Apparently some people think it's fun to
try and have less knowledge for humans
pretty pretty strange
behavior and
The Internet Archive took this
opportunity and the like the word of
mouth going around
saying that they were attacked
They took that opportunity to remind
their users that those DDoS attacks are
not really that alarming
Compared to other problems that they're
facing which is that they're being sued
by many US publishers
Because they claim that the Internet
Archive is infringing
on their copyright by
Preserving all the material and basically
functioning like a regular library
they host a bunch of content that has
been donated by users and
Just like a normal library and they offer
rentals of this content whether it's a
movie a book or whatever
Just like a normal library. You cannot
run the same thing 20,000 times at the
same time just like a normal library
But apparently US publishers thinks that
digital libraries are different than
physical libraries and they are attacking
the Internet Archive for this
If they lost that lawsuit, it would be an
absolute disgrace for human knowledge
They already lost one relatively
recently, which I think scrapped
500,000 books from their collection which
really sucks because some of those are
things that are not being
published or sold at all
Anymore meaning that there's one less way
to grab these it's the same problem with
video game conservation when something is
no longer sold or accessible
In any way, I think copyright should just
go away on those things because there's
basically no reason to keep it
Let people distribute what they need when
you're not making money off of it
I think that's fine, but apparently not
so yeah DDoS attacks and a
giant lawsuit is not good
The Wayback Machine and the Internet
Archive are really useful project for
scientific research and just for personal
knowledge and having them
Go off the map would really really suck
Now we're going to talk about
WSL the Windows subsystem for Linux some
of you might think
it's not related to Linux
But let me assure you it is
because it is running Linux
So Microsoft has announced a few things
for WSL that should
improve the experience first
They will automatically release some of
the memory used by WSL when it's no
longer under use for the
underlying Windows system
Which is interesting because I would have
thought that already was the case by
default because if not
It means that basically you were running
your WSL system. You were launching apps
It was grabbing more and more RAM and
then when you close those apps the RAM
stayed in WSL instead of being given back
to Windows, so you
probably had to close your WSL
System from time to time and reopen it.
It's weird. I don't know
They doesn't feel like it's been
developed that well, but yes short
But more importantly apart from that
Microsoft is bringing a graphical
settings app to configure WSL
Meaning that you will no
longer have to use a text file
Meaning that probably some Unix die-hard
fans will be even more mad
about the existence of WSL
Because now they're even moving away from
text-based configurations
Now I'm just joking you can still use
those text files to configure things
But you will get a graphical app to do
the exact same thing and
Windows users will also get a new
Environments feature that will let you
create manage and launch various
development environments
Probably sort of like a
virtual machine manager for WSL
So you could create an Arch Linux dev
environment a Ubuntu or Debian
environment and launch these
Indiscriminately from the same interface
probably a graphical thing way easier to
handle for a lot of people
And I know a lot of
people do not like WSL
They're afraid it will be detrimental to
Linux's growth in the long run
For now the data seems to point to the
fact it had zero impact
Linux is growing and
growing faster than it ever has
So WSL probably never
had an impact on that
I personally think WSL has the potential
to cement Linux's place as the leading
platform for developers
Right now if you want to develop
something in most domains,
you're better suited with Linux
It's going to be easier to install and
run your dev environment
But for some people running Linux on bare
metal is not an option
So having Linux available on Windows
means that people keep using Linux for
development or learn how
to use Linux for development
Instead of just using Windows because
that's what is installed on their PC and
trying to develop stuff on Windows
I think it's a net positive for Linux in
general, but we'll have
to see in the long run
Now Ubuntu finally released their long
announced version
using a real-time kernel
They're calling it
real-time Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
But it is not a separate distribution
despite its very long name
It's just Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with a patched
kernel that implements
the preempt_rt patch set
This is what lets the kernel handle
various operations in
a very predictable way
Which is what you need for a few specific
use cases if you want to learn more about
specific kernel versions
Including the real-time one
I made a video very recently on that
topic early this month or
at the end of last month
And it's it just tells you everything you
need to know about this
This release also apparently improves
compatibility for Ubuntu with the
Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 and
it makes them perform better
For real-time uses, but there is one
caveat to use this version
You need an Ubuntu Pro subscription and
it is free for individuals and for
small-scale companies
up to five computers
But you do need to create an account and
to register with Canonical to access and
create that subscription
Which is something that is a bit annoying
because if you just wanted to use
real-time Ubuntu and
not give Canonical an info
Well, you cannot it's not a deal-breaker
But it probably would have been better to
just offer that version as a regular
download or through a specific
repo that you could enable on any system
Still it's there it exists if you need a
real-time OS and you know Ubuntu
Well, at least you don't have to learn an
entirely new OS just to use it and it's
also not a bad option
Registering for that free subscription
will also give you longer LCS support
from five to ten years
if I remember correctly
So it is not that bad and it's just a few
details who create an account
I'm pretty sure you could use fake
information in a temporary
email if you really wanted to
And now we'll talk about operating
systems with two different systems. The
first one is an interesting one
It is not a Linux based
system. It's a free BSD based one
It's called Raven OS not Raven
It's a Y instead of the E and it's
something that I gave
a shot to a while back
Before realizing it was extremely far
from ready at that time and their new
release is still not
ready for most people
But it is still interesting because the
aim of Raven OS is to replicate
Mac OS's experience
as closely as possible
But it's not by using a tweaked KDE
version or a GNOME version
Which sort of looks like Mac OS but
doesn't really work like it and the theme
is just bad in a lot of areas
And the global menu doesn't work for
everything. No, they
don't want to do that
They are developing an entirely new
desktop and they also want to be able to
download and install Mac OS apps on
The system on Raven OS. So for now, it is
just a developer preview.
I think it's version 0.5
It's not even an alpha. It is described
as unstable and full of bugs
But you still get the very basics of a
Mac OS desktop. You get a global menu
You get a dog that works
they support the Kokoa APIs
Which are what is being used mostly to
build certain Mac OS apps and they will
apparently run most if not all free BSD
ports
they will run a lot of Linux apps through
the usual free BSD to Linux or Linux to
free BSD compatibility layer and
Mac OS apps are said to be
able to work in the future
They say it won't be
perfect compatibility
But they seem very confident that they
will be able to just let you download the
DMG and install the app and run it
So it's a very interesting project
I generally feel like these
sort of let's replicate Mac OS
systems tend to never succeed because
what people want from Mac OS is the
polish and the
smoothness and the aesthetics and
Generally, none of the systems trying to
replicate that really manage it. There's
a lot of really weird stuff
Maybe the default experience looks okay
But as soon as you start installing
something you immediately notice that
yeah, it's not made to look like that
It's not meant to resemble that it's not
working with the global menu or it's not
working with the dark
or it's just not Mac OS
It's a system tweaked to look like Mac OS
and so this will never satisfy
any person looking for Mac OS
But in the Linux world
maybe something that completely
replicates from scratch the desktop
environment of Mac OS might be able to
satisfy those users and
If they can manage to
actually run Mac OS apps on free BSD
then this would be a very very solid
thing and this could
probably convert a few people and
Honestly, this could also probably be
adapted as a layer to any other BSD or
maybe even Linux based systems
Which would be really really cool now?
the only real big issue here is that most
good Mac OS apps are paid for and
And so I don't know what
they're gonna do about this
Because well you would have to have a
solid compatibility list to make sure
that the app you just pay ten bucks for
Actually runs instead of buying it and
noticing that it doesn't or just not
being able to buy it
at all because it comes
From the Mac App Store and this you
probably will never be
able to run on Raven OS
So interesting project kind of kind of
skeptical about their chances, but still
I will follow it because it's fun
And the second operating system I wanted
to talk about here is Rhino Linux
You probably heard about it in the past
It's a rolling release version of Ubuntu,
but it's not really Ubuntu
They changed the entire desktop for
something called unicorn
Which is based on XFCE and they want you
to be able to install
basically any app from any source
And this this through had been put on po
on pause and on hold because well there
was a bit of developer burnout
Tensions ran high apparently people were
not agreeing on the rhythm of development
And so basically they stopped working on
it for a while and they've just now
Reorganized around a few community
guidelines and more healthy development
practices and they released Rhino Linux
2024.1 this is still a rolling release it
still comes with its own packaging tool
You can still install
like packages from Ubuntu
Packstall flat hub or snap this update is
minimal it only updates pack
stall to its latest version
It's kind of like the AUR for Ubuntu
based distros if you don't know it also
comes with the kernel 6.9
But apparently it's sort of a buggy
version in certain areas
Because the rebasing on the latest
version of XFCE broke a
few things that they built
Notably their global menu and so it's
been hard coded in terms of length
So it might actually spill out of your
monitor and you will have to fix that
manually in a CSS file
Which isn't really all that great. I'm
really only mentioning Rhino Linux here
just because it really outlines the fact
that open source projects and operating
systems are not companies mostly their
groups of people who
invest themselves to the maximum on their
project for a while and then they can
decide it's too much and then they can
Reorganize they can leave they can stop
they can resume they can change and it's
always nice to keep that
in mind when judging or
Using an open source tool or a Linux
distribution just because it feels
polished and it's a finished product that
lets you do your work
Every day doesn't mean that it's made by
a giant company with tons of money
Does it has it doesn't mean that it has
financial support that other capable
systems might enjoy?
I personally tend to forget that from
time to time because our stuff is
generally very very good
But some from time to time it's nice to
remember that behind all of these
projects that we use every day
They are just human sometimes just one
human sometimes two
or three sometimes tens
But they are doing this in their free
time for the most part
And so yeah problems can happen and I
think the Rhino Linux
example is a is a solid one
People got super
enthusiastic working on this thing
They really tried to rewrite things three
times in a row because they had a new
idea and at some point
They just burnt out and this meant that
if you use Rhino
Linux as your main system
You were left in the dust for like six to
eight months, which is a feel bad
But instead of judging the people making
the OS we can all
remember that hey, you know what?
They're just humans and it's sort of
normal for humans to burn out and stop
making those projects
It I just wanted to outline this because
that's something I tend to
forget myself all the time
Okay, and let's conclude this episode by
talking about the steam
deck the steam deck passed
15,000 games that are officially marked
as being playable on the steam deck
10,100 have the official playable label
meaning that they work on the steam deck
But some elements might be a little bit
too tiny or you need to change the
default settings or
maybe controller input is
not perfect, but it
definitely works and is playable and
4900 games are officially verified
meaning that they are
perfect on the steam deck
There are also 4,000 games being marked
as unsupported and if you don't use a
steam deck and you
just use a Linux computer
If it's a verified game for the deck
You will install and play it with no
issue on any Linux computer if it's
marked as playable on the deck
Generally, you will have nothing to do to
play it on a normal Linux computer
And if it's marked as
unsupported some of them will work
Because they can be marked as unsupported
because they don't support controller
input or they don't support the
resolution of the deck
But some of them are marked as
unsupported because they just flat out
don't run on Linux at all because of
anti-cheat or other things
So your experience may vary but basically
that's 15,000 games
playable on the steam deck
That's probably closer to like 17 18,000
steam games playable on a Linux computer
Recently verified titles for the deck
include rogue trader something that I
absolutely want to play and
maybe that's the opportunity
To get my steam deck out from its
cupboard because I love this type of
game, but I was really
Uninvested and underwhelmed with Baldur's
Gate 3 setting the game was
Insanely good all the mechanics the
options everything was fantastic
But that generic fantasy setting just
doesn't do it for me. It is boring to me
I much prefer science fiction and I much
prefer the 40k universe to anything that
is Tolkien based or
Dungeons and Dragons based
So while I will probably never finish
Baldur's Gate 3 because I just
Cannot bring myself to do it because I'm
entirely uninvested in
the story or the characters
Warhammer 40k rogue trader seems a lot
more like my gem and
around the steam deck
The data still seems to show that it's
selling like hotcakes
It is consistently in the top three or
top five sellers on Steam
Along with games. It's in the top five
best-selling games on
Steam, which is insane
And that's been going on since the
beginning of the year
meaning that it probably sells
multiple tens of thousands of units every
week if you compare it to how many units
the games in the top three or top five
Of Steam actually sell that's a really
really good thing for Linux gaming
The more people use and own a steam deck
the more developers will focus on
supporting it and the
more games will run on Linux
In general, so I will admit I personally
have not used my own
steam deck in a long time
But that's mostly because I haven't
really traveled a lot or at all recently
I haven't been gaming much at all
My time has been consumed by building
painting and playing with my Warhammer
40k miniatures and armies
Gaming has taken a big backseat recently,
but honestly with rogue trader being
supported it just
sparked my interest again
I will probably swing
back to gaming at some point
I guess and honestly seeing the steam
deck perform so well is really nice
It's just a great little device great
console and it's helping Linux immensely
So props to valve with that. They're a
company. They're not
doing this to be our friends
They're doing this because that's where
the thing they will make the make the
most money and keep their sort of
monopoly on the gaming market
On PC for longer, but it still helps us
in the short run at least
so I'm not going to complain
Okay, so this will conclude today's
episode or this week's episode
I hope you enjoyed listening to it even
you though you might not
agree with a lot of the opinions
I expressed in there. I hope you enjoyed
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